"The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite."
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"He that drinks fast, pays slow."
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"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."
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"Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things."
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"How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out."
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"Off a cup of C.J. Gibson, man I'm faded off the brown and I'm easily influenced by the niggas I'm around"
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"She spilled whiskey on her shirt, she gon have to get it cleaned. She been going way to hard, someone has to intervene."
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"Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores."
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"Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life."
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"The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making."
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"I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies."
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"Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe."
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"When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!"
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"There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar - even in this fake-ass Irish pub."
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"Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant."
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"Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes."
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"In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole."
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"We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous."
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"It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him."
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"The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad."
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